Enrique Silva

This will never happen because they don’t even have an airline, all of the “prime air” operations are carried out by Atlas. Their callsign is “giant”. All amazon did was sign a contract with an actual cargo airline and put their stupid decals on the aide of the planes.

Amazon does not have a “fleet”, all of the current “PrimeAir” aircraft are operated by AtlasAir, the whole prime air thing is nothing more than a marketing stunt to fool shareholders.
I’ll repeat: they do not have an airline or fleat, they just signed a contract with an actual airline and put their stupid logo on the side of someone else’s planes. I really don’t understand why people don’t realize this.

This has nothing to do with anything. More hours on andofferent plane would have not prevented that accident, that sounds like a textbook case of “get-there-itis”: “lets just procede and try to lower the gear real quick”. Of course we don’t have all the facts yet, that’s an assumption based on what we have so far, but one fact is clear: basic flight training wasn’t the issue, the issue was clearly a violation of airline specific procedures.

I’m guessing they only realized their mistake when they heard the warning and instead of going around, they decided to continue regardless and just lower the gear real quick. We’ve all seen the video of the guy setting his flaps during take-off roll, so...

What’s the speed for the A320? I’m not familiar with that plane, but on a 777 it’s 270 knots indicated, I’m assuming they are at least in the same ballpark and therefore your hypothesis doesn’t sound right. You just can’t overspeed the gear on final .

Had you read the article and not just the title, you’d realize this is just a conversation between a pilot that saw something an ATC, it doesn’t involve any authorities saying something along the lines of “we shot down an airliners”, therefore your comment makes no sense in this context.

The title is incredibly misleading, but I guess this is nothing unexpected for something sourced from “buzzfeed”. The way it’s written it leads you to believe Iranian officials knew about it and even admitted to it, while in reality, the alleged recording only contains the conversation between a pilot a ATC concerning an object on flames/being shot down - no mention of what plane, on what circumstances or by whom. The article even states the part where ATC would have contacted the authorities is not present in the recording.